Privacy

5917 readers

252 users here now

Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.

Rules

PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!

Be civil and no prejudice
Don't promote big-tech software
No apathy and defeatism for privacy (i.e. "They already have my data, why bother?")
No reposting of news that was already posted
No crypto, blockchain, NFTs
No Xitter links (if absolutely necessary, use xcancel)

Related communities:

Some of these are only vaguely related, but great communities.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

otter@lemmy.ca

shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com

241

23&Me to settle for a whopping $2.60 per affected person (cybernews.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by CatGPT@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

23andMe agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims over a 2023 data breach affecting 6.9 million users.

And that is before the lawyers take most of it. Basically zero consequences for breach of DNA sequences, health reports, ethnicity, race, location, etc. Fascists surely won’t use this for anything horrific.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

how would you approach gene testing in a way that maintains privacy, at this time?

Data of just ethnicity or heritage (as in area of family origin) itself already special protected data under EU GDPR, not even allowed store without special permission. Let alone connect with other people.

In germany a test for fatherhood is illegal without consent of all parties or judge ordering one. So unconsenting gene match for fatherhood probably also illegal.

All in all, probably impossible. This data will ruin more life than the joy it bring to know some random fact about heritage.